According to Wikipedia, chocolate or cocoa is a food made from roasted and ground cacao seed kernels that is available as a
liquid, solid, or paste, either on its own or as a flavoring agent in other foods. Cacao has been consumed
in some form for at least 5,300 years starting with the Mayo-Chinchipe culture in what is present-
day Ecuador and later Mesoamerican civilizations also consumed chocolate beverages before being

introduced to Europe in the 16th century.

Making chocolate is a process that has many steps. First, the cocoa beans are collected and put in piles
or containers to make them ferment. Fermentation makes the sugar in the beans turn into alcohol. Then
the beans are dried and cleaned. Chocolate makers must cook the beans, and then crush them to make
the cocoa butter and the chocolate liquor come out of them. Then the chocolate maker mixes different
ingredients together to make the different kinds of chocolate. Dark or bittersweet chocolate is made
from sugar, cocoa butter, and chocolate liquor. Milk chocolate uses all those ingredients plus milk and
vanilla. White chocolate does not contain chocolate liquor, but only cocoa butter, along with sugar, milk
and vanilla.